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etiolate

verb

  1. to become pale, weaken, especially with lack of light
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈiːti.əleɪt/

adj

Etymology: French étioler, from Norman French étieuler, ultimately from Old French estuble (“stubble”), from Latin stupla, from stipula (“straw, stubble”) (English stubble).

  1. etiolated

verb

Etymology: French étioler, from Norman French étieuler, ultimately from Old French estuble (“stubble”), from Latin stupla, from stipula (“straw, stubble”) (English stubble).

  1. To make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant.
  2. To make pale and sickly-looking.

    She was a very lovely woman in her late thirties, in a silk dress of screaming scarlet that would have etiolated a white woman to bled veal.

    Gwynn and Richard were at the Westway Health and Fitness Centre, surrounded by thirty or forty etiolated drunks: playing snooker.

  3. To become pale or blanched.